On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > FWIW, we have two measurements of x86_64 vs i686. > > Smolt: > Â Â Â Â65% i686 > Â Â Â Â35% x86_64 > > mirrors.fedoraproject.org: > Â Â Â Â70% i686 > Â Â Â Â30% x86_64 Rightâ it's clear that i686 is far more commonly installed today but a non-trivial part of that must be due to the fact that the x86_64 links are hidden. The smolt cpu stats (mhz, number of cores, vendors) suggests that a significant portion of these i686 installs are x86_64 hardware. Though I don't know of any way to gage this precisely. Does anything smolt gathers reliably indicate if the system is x86_64 capable? If so, could that data be made public? I would expect that the i686 install will remain the most common so long as that is what the Fedora project promotes. Drawing attention back to the original post for a moment "When will the Fedora project begin recommending x86_64"â I wasn't rattling so much for the change to happen now (although I think it should), as much ask asking when it will happen, or really what criteria will be used to determine if we've reached that point yet. I don't think criteria which can never be true (number of systems that can run x86_64 > can run i686) or which are nearly circular (existing installed versions; which no-doubt depends strongly on what Fedora chooses to promote) are all that reasonable. Cheersâ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
